Picture exhibitor for talking machines



Feb. 7, 1928.

1,658,030 F. ADAMS PICTURE EXHIBITOR F OR TALKING-MACHINES Filed Dec. 14, 1 923 2 Sheets- Sheet 1 WITNESS.

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F. ADAMS PICTURE EXHIBITOR FOR TALKING MACHINES Filed Dec. 23

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UNITED. STATES FRED ADAMS, 01' WTVELE, NEW JERSEY.

norm nxnmrron iron mums moms Application med December 14, 1923. semi No. 880,898.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a simple, reliable and comparatively inexpensive means for exhibiting pictures in synchronism with talking machine reproductions; to embody such means in a form in which they constitute attachments for disk record talking machines; and to insure synchronism between the pictures exhibited and the reproduction.

In one of its aspects the invention may be said to com rise a slip-disk adapted to be frictionall driven in contact with a disk record and s otted to expose sound grooves and provided with a marginal row of ic- 16 tures and with a radially and circum erentially disposed edge of, which the radial parts co-operate with a tone arm needle to check the disk, and of which the circumferential parts co-operate with the needle to permit the disk to travel with the sound record, and in another of its aspects thev invention comprises a balopticon carried by the tone arm and adapted to co-operate with the pictures on the slip-disk to pro ect them 3 upon a screen arranged at the outlet of the horn. The invention further comprises the improvements -to be presently described and finally claimed; a

In the following description reference will be made to the accompanying drawing form: ing part hereof and in which is illustrated one embodiment of the invention chosen 7 from among other embodiments of the invention for the sake of. illustration and in 36 these drawings Figure 1 is an elevational view, partly in section, of apparatus embodying features of the invention and of parts of a talking machine of the disk record type,

Fig. 2 is a view drawn to an enlarged scale illustrating in plan a slip-disk embodying features of the invention and showing sound grooves of the record through a slot or open in in the slip-disk, and l ig. 3 is a view-similar to Fig. 2 showing a modification.

The slip-disk 1 is slotted as at 2 and is provided with a wall or edge of which parts 3 are disposed generally radially and of parts 4 are; disposed generally circumferentially. t At the marginal surface of the disk are arranged pictures 5, "and the center of the disk is shown as provided with a perforation 6. 'Ifhe disk may be made of appropriate materlal of which paper or card-board isan illustration, and the walls or edges 3 and 4 may be reir JICQd, if de- SII'Gd: There is a icture projector indicated at 7 in Fig. 2, an it is arranged in position for co-operation with the pictures 5. As illustrated in Fig. 1 the projector is of the form of a balopticon 8 carried by the tone arm 9 and adapted to project the pictures upon a screen 10 at the outlet of the horn. In this particular construction the tone arm 'andhorn provided with a balopticon conwill be described in connection with the embodiment of it chosen for illustration in the accompanying drawings, that is, in connectioirwith a slip-disk having one slot 2 which is intended for use with a single face record, but in the case of a double face record another similar slot 2, Fig. 3, is provided and reference will be made to abalopticon because that happens to be the type of picture projector shown but it is within the scope of the invention to project the pictures by illumination from beneath the slip-disk. A needle attached to the tone arm which may well be a stylus 12 travels in the needle grooves from the rim toward the center as the record rotates and the slot in the. slip-disk permits of that operation. The needle as it travels along the radial portions 3 of the wall or edge prevents rotation of the slip-disk during the interval of timeconsumed in such travel so that the picture corresponding to the particular portion 3 is permitted to remain at rest beneath the picture projector 7, thus the exhibition of the picture and the reproduction appropriate to it are synchronized. The slipisk ma be ruled as at 13 in correspondence wit In the needle grooves and the scale 13 thus "provided is available in manufacture for ascertaining the proper length of the radial portion 3 of "the wall in order that its corresponding picture may be exhibited during the reproduction. In the construc, tion described the ictures are pro ected onto the screenlO at t e end of the horn, which to the projector and havin Q in respect to 2. A picture exhibitor for disk record" l to which the invention relates that modifications may be made in details of 'constr'uc tion and arrangement and in matters of mere form without departing from the spirit of the invention which is not limited as to such matters or otherwise than as the prior arg allilmthe appended claims may require.

1. A picture exhibitor for disk record' talking machines comprising a picture projector, a pivotal. tone arm, a radially moving needle, a slip-disk having a circumferential row of pictures arrangedwfor,presentation radially and circumferentially arranged e ge portions of which the former in co-operation with the radial movement of the needle rovided on the tone arm osition the slipsk pictures e projector.

talking machines comprising a slip-disk adapted to be frictionally driven in contact with a disk record and having a" slot through which sound grooves areexposed and providing an e e of which portions range crosswise and 6 which portionsrange in hne with the sound grooves, a tone arm provided with a needle which-operateson aesaoac said edge. to stop the slip-disk for intervals of time corresponding 'tothe lengths of crosswise portions of the edge and to permit the disk to move with the record as the tone arm sweeps towards the center of the record, and a row of pictures at the marginal portion of said disk.

3. A picture exhibitor for disk record talking machines comprising a slip-disk slotted to expose sound grooves and provided with a marginal row of pictures and with a radially and circumferentially disposed edge of which the radial parts co-operate with a tone arm needle-t0 check the slipdisk and of which the circumferential parts co-operate with the needle-to permit the \disk to travel with a sound record, a balopticon picture projector carried by the tone arm and into co-operation position with which the pictures are brought, a disk sound record, and a tone arm provided with a needle. r

4. A picture exhibitor comprising a disk providedwith a row of pictures at its circumference and. with a perforation. at" its center and including between itscpnter and the circle of the row of pictures-an opening having edges of. which one extends both generally radially and generally circum- "ferentially in alternation.

FRED-ADAMS. 

